Jordan Mantha wrote: > Hi all! > > After some discussion with Daniel Holbach and Matthew East I would > like to propose that the Ubuntu Packaging Guide be moved from the Doc > Team repo/website to the wiki. > > Here are some reasons for doing so: > * the packaging guide has been essentially unmaintained for a couple > releases now. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have > done but just have no time for. There are only so many > people,especially devs, who are willing to learn docbook, etc. > * I am a firm believer that the Ubuntu Packaging Guide should be a > community project where the people who are actually packaging are > doing the writing
This is very similar to the status of the Wine FAQ at WineHQ. In the span of a single month, moving to the wiki took the FAQ from a several-year out of date useless document to an accessible, useful guide. Simply put, it's a lot easier to update a wiki page than send in a patch to a docbook. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu